# Targeting a mc with within an mc

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-a-mc-with-within-an-mc/180695
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 2, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-a-mc-with-within-an-mc/180695 "2006-03-02T19:50:46Z")
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### Author: ![certainfate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@certainfate](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/certainfate)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/targeting-a-mc-with-within-an-mc/180695/1 "2006-03-02T19:50:46Z")

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Ok… I have searched and looked around and can’t seem to find the answer to my problem. I have made a navigation that is a movieclip, now within the movieclip are 6 movieclips that are the “buttons” of the navigation. This is then placed on the maintimeline as the movies navigation. When one of the “buttons” is pressed i want it to go to a specific point on one of the 6 movieclip “buttons” timeline. This is the code that I have used before on the maintime line to target a movieclip there… but never a mc within an mc. First, would I still place this code on the maintime? or within the mc that the 6 mc buttons are placed? Second how would I target the nav buttons mc’s? I am confusing myself… If anyone has any insight that would be awesome.

stop();

but1.onRelease = function() {  
this.gotoAndStop(9);  
but2.gotoAndStop(1);  
this.enabled = 0;  
but2.enabled = 1;  
but3.gotoAndStop(1);  
this.enabled = 0;  
but3.enabled = 1;  
};